A MEISSEN THIMBLE minutely painted in the manner of B.G. Haüer with a continuous harbour scene with merchants beside estuaries among packages and barrels and before buildings and distant shipping below a gilt line, the biscuit upper part with indentations and the interior richly gilt (slight rubbing to gilding on lower rim), circa 1735

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A MEISSEN THIMBLE minutely painted in the manner of B.G. Haüer with a continuous harbour scene with merchants beside estuaries among packages and barrels and before buildings and distant shipping below a gilt line, the biscuit upper part with indentations and the interior richly gilt (slight rubbing to gilding on lower rim), circa 1735
2.2cm. high

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's Geneva, 16 November 1975, lot 65

Literature

Edwin F. Holmes, op. cit., col. pl. (3) between pp. 128-129

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